The object
Donald E. Ingber led the creation of a living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip, a microfluidic device that models the tissue–blood interface of the lung. Wyss Institute identifies the device as his groundbreaking work, while Harvard's current profile describes his continuing engineering of microdevices and nanotechnologies for research, diagnostics and therapeutics.
What Donald did
Led the team that created a living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip microdevice and co-authored the foundational demonstration.
Why it matters
The lung-on-a-chip established a widely influential organ-on-chip hardware model for reproducing human organ functions in a controllable microdevice.
Living-status check
A Harvard Gazette report dated April 25, 2025 identifies Ingber as Wyss founding director and reports his active organ-on-a-chip projects.